Thank you very much everyone. Your guidance has really helped me, and I'm relieved that it looks like I won't need to take any drastic action with my cherries or rowan tree. I totally agree it's a situation of plant in the wrong place, as it would be great if it was elsewhere in my garden, just not the middle of the lawn!! 😁 Thanks again everyone and all the best.
Hello! I'm a new gardener and new member of this forum, and was searching for info on Tree of Heaven when I ran across your post. I was wondering whether there was any f/u. I have done extensive research on Tree of Heaven which is highly invasive here in the US: it is allopathic, out-competes native species, and also is the host plant for spotted lantern fly, a terrible agricultural pest which impacts 40% of our food crops.
I wanted to add that your plants look a lot like TOH, which is often mistaken for sumac and black walnut. It *can* can cross-hybridize with them, resulting in non-standard appearances. It's very hard to control. Possibly the reason you had root suckers is that the neighbor pruned or attempted to cut their own trees, which stimulates root suckers.
I had a large Rhus in my garden, I might have been an Ailanthus. I removed it and immediately suckers sprang up all over my neighbour's garden. Nothing in mine. I kept schtum.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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I totally agree it's a situation of plant in the wrong place, as it would be great if it was elsewhere in my garden, just not the middle of the lawn!! 😁
Thanks again everyone and all the best.
Hopefully if i get any suckers they will come up in the lawn and be easily mown off.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."